Georgian refugees handed new homes for New Year
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More than 100 internally displaced families will meet New Year in the new apartments in Georgia.
Yesterday, the Minister of Internally Displaced Persons from the Occupied Territories, Accommodation and Refugees, Sozar Subari, Deputy Executive Director of Municipal Development Fund Ilia Darchiashvili and United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Mission Director Stephen Haykin handed keys to 113 families in the Kaspi Municipality.
The rehabilitation of a hospital building, where the new families will lay their homes, became possible with the funding of Municipal Development Fund and USAID. The total cost of the renovations works amounted in 4,043,674 GEL.
Within the project, 113 homes were rehabilitated, out of which 37 are one-room apartments, 52 apartments have two rooms and 24 places have three rooms. In addition, several apartments were fully adapted for the disabled people.
The beneficiaries were refugees from the occupied Tskhinvali region (so-called South Ossetia).
Throughout the project, 170 people were employed on the construction works, out of which 50 percent were local residents.
Hundreds of Georgian people displaced by conflict and violence who live in collective centres have been gifted apartments in their name for symbolic price of one GEL.
The Georgian Government has announced a tender for a development company to provide apartments for Georgia’s internally displaced persons (IDPs).
Georgian people displaced by conflict and violence who live in collective centres will be gifted apartments in their name for one GEL, the Ministry of Refugees says.
Georgia’s internally displaced persons (IDPs) will be granted one-time financial assistance from the Government this winter to help them pay their gas and power bills.
More than 10,000 Georgian people displaced by conflict and violence and forced to live in collective centres are benefiting from improved living conditions.
Assisting Georgia’s Internally Displaced People (IDPs) into quality accommodation, supporting agricultural sector development and implementing modern punishment methods in the justice sector are some of the priority areas of the Government of Georgia.
IDP families were given the opportunity to find an appropriate vacant house in any rural area nationwide, and once a suitable home was found, the Government took responsibility for purchasing the property under the ‘House in a Village’ state program.
At today’s Governmental meeting Prime Minister of Georgia Irakli Garibashvili said 347 internally displaced families would be gifted private ownership of accommodation in various parts of Georgia before the end of the year.
More than hundred Internally Displaced families were today gifted new homes in capital Tbilisi.
Earlier today Georgia’s Prime Minister Giorgi Kvirikashvili said 180 internally displaced families would be the latest recipients of new homes.
Dozens of Georgian families displaced by conflict are now the proud owners of new homes in Khashuri, in Georgia’s Shida Kartli region.
About 12,000 Internally Displaced People (IDPs) living in Georgia have been gifted new homes in the past four years through the Government’s initiative to rehome these vulnerable people.
Before the year ends the Government of Georgia is pledging to provide emergency housing to 400 of the most vulnerable Internally Displaced families.
Georgia’s Ministry of Internally Displaced Persons, Accommodation and Refugees has made a decision to buy flats for internally displaced families who live in wrecked or buildings of strategic importance.
79 eco migrant families living in Tsalka have received accommodations from the government.